Posted inDeaths (Obituaries) Fosbury Flop Fosbury, Dick (1947- ) High jump Idaho Olympic Games (1968) Oregon Track and Field
Dick Fosbury, 76, Whose ‘Flop’ Transformed the High Jump, Is Dead
His back-first, neck-down leaping style struck competitors and onlookers as a novelty act. After he won an Olympic gold in 1968, it came to dominate his sport.